Window-shade bracket



c. E. WICKLIFFE.

WINDOW SHADE BRACKET. APPLICATION man MAR-24, 1920.

1,358,270 Patented Nov. 9,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. WIQKLIFI'E, 0F NEWYORK, N. Y., ASSIG-NOR ONE-FOURTH T0 THOMAS MGMURRAY AND ONE-FOURTH IO-JOHN JENNERICH, BOTH "OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WIN DOW -SHADE BRACKET.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

Application filed March 24, 1920. Serial No. 368,214.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C ARLES E. Wron- LIFFE, a citizen of the United States, and

resident of the borough of Manhattamcity, county, and State of; New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow-Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in brackets for supporting shade rollers, and has for its object to provide a bracket of simple and inexpensive construction which may be readily stamped, or otherwise formed, from sheet metal and which may be readily and securely fastened to a window frame.

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Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of brackets embodying the invention, designed for use at opposite sides of awindow frame to removably support a shade roller;

Fig. 3 a front elevation showing the brackets applied to a window frame and supporting a shade roller;

Fig. 4 a horizontal section on the line IV-IV of Fig. 3; and

Fig. 5 a perspective view showing the right hand bracket secured to the window frame.

The two brackets are stamped, or otherwise formed, of bendable sheet metal. Each bracket comprises a plate 1, preferably elongated vertically as shown, and having a long and narrow bendable extension or arm 2 formed integrally therewith. The arm 2 extends horizontally from one of the vertical side edges of the plate 1, preferably at a point intermediate the upper and lower ends of the plate, as shown, and is preferably formed with a widened or flared outer end portion 3 having a vertical end edge parallel with the side edges of plate 1. The plate 1 is provided with an aperture 4. preferably in horizontal alinement with the bendable arm or tongue 2, through which the shank of a tack, screw, or nail may be driven, as hereinafter described.

The plate 1 of the left hand bracket is formed with a laterally offset substantially offset portions project from opposite faces of the plates to adapt the brackets for use at opposite sides of a window frame. The off set portion 5 of the left hand bracket is formed with a vertical slot Z which is open at its upper end, and the offset portion 6 of .the right hand bracket is formed with a circular aperture 8. r I

The brackets are designed to be shipped and sold in fiat form in pairs, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. To apply the brackets to a window frame, the flared ends 3 of the tongues or anchoring members 2. are forced ner faces of the strips Tacks 11, or

other suitable fastening devices, arev then driven or screwed into the strips 10' with their shanks passing through theapertures 4 in the plates 1.

The broad frictional bearing of the flared ends 3 of tongues 2 on the strips 10 and window frame 9 and the broad frictional bearing of plates 1 on strips 10 serve to prevent rocking of the brackets about the tacks 11 as pivots and also assist in resisting vertical or horizontal sliding of the brackets on the strips 10. These broad bearing surfaces also prevent the plates 1 from swinging or tilting away from the inner faces of strips 10. By anchoring the tongues 2 between the Window frame and sash-retaining strips the brackets may be securely held to the window frame by a single tack or other small fastening device. By providing rela tively long bendable tongues or anchoring arms the brackets may be attached to window frames having sash-retaining strips of different thickness.

While I have shown the offset portions 5 and 6 of U-shape, and as being formed at the upper ends of plates 1, it will be obvious that both the shape and location of the off set portion may be changed. A shade roller of the usual construction, having the usual cylindrical journal at one endand the usual flattened journal at the other end, and a shade 12 rolled thereon, may beremovably mounted in the brackets by inserting the cylindrical journal in the aperture 8 and It will be obvious also that the opening 4 may be omitted and that the bracket may be attached to a window without employing a tack or screw, since ordinarily the end 3 of the anchoring tongue 2 will be vso securely clamped 'between'the abutting faces of the frame 9 and strip 10 that the bracket i of a sash retaining strip. 30

will be firmly held in'place and it will be unnecessary to employ additional fastening devices, I

V 'lVhat I claim is: v

l-A one-piece sheet metal shade bracket 'eom'prisinga fiat vertically elongated plate having a portion thereol adjacent one end pressed laterally and provided with a hearing for-a shade roller spindle and a narrow integral bendable anchoring arm extending from one side edge of the plate and having smooth flat side faces to adapt the free end of thear n to be forced between the side member of-a wind w frame and the inner face Or a sash-retaining strip, the free end of said bendable arm being widened vertically and the plate being pro vided with an aperture substantially midway its upper and lower ends to permit a fastening device to be inserted through the plate to secure the plate to the outer face i 2. A sheet metal shade bracket comprising a' ilat plate having. a portion thereof pressed laterally and provided with a'rollerspindle bearing, said plate being formed sash-retaining strip.

8. A flat sheet metal shade bracket comprislnga plate a portion of wlnchis pressed laterally and provided with a bearing for a shade roller spindle sald plate being provided wltha smooth, fiat, relatively nan row, integral anchoring; arm extending from one side thereof in the-same plane and adapted to bedriven between a side member of a window frame and a sash-retaining strip, the outer end oi said arm being widened and the narrow portion of the arm being bendable around the edge or a sash-retaining strip to place the plate flush with the opposite face 01" the strip from the widened anchoring end of the arm.

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CHARLES E, WIOKLIF 1 6O 'Injtestimony whereof I hereunto my 

